Human beings Quote by Stephen Dobyns

Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their…

— R. S. Thomas

I often think of a poem as a door that opens into a room where I want to go.

— Minnie Bruce Pratt

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are…

— Czeslaw Milosz

A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

— Sven Birkerts

“Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.”

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

— Carl Sandburg

I’ve written this poem before but always through a window, never through an open door.

— Andrea Gibson

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is…

— Mark Strand

A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

— Gwen Harwood

A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping.

— Marianne Boruch

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

— Jean Genet